In a historic shift for Sri Lanka, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party has ascended to the presidency. It marks a major change in the country’s political ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the National People’s Power (NPP) party, has been elected as Sri Lanka's new president, ...

Dissanayake was born in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. He completed his primary education at Thambuththegama Central College and ...

Sri Lanka has made history by voting leftist Anura Kumara Dissanayake to power. The people rejected all the known and tested ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, whose party leans towards Marxism, has won the Sri Lankan election after a historic two rounds of counting. Anura Kumara Dissanayake, whose party leans towards Marxism, has ...

Sri Lanka’s presidential election has headed into a run-off, with leftist outsider Anura Kumara Dissanayake leading the vote count but failing to pass the 50 per cent threshold needed for an outright ...

With a record 39 candidates daring to put their names in the hat and the presidential election going to a historic second count (because no candidate managed to secure a clear majority), Sri Lanka ...

Sri Lanka, which continues to grapple with an economic crisis, is voting on Saturday to elect a new president. Unlike ...

It was always going to come to this. The first Sri Lankan election in generations where even a remotely leftist party stood a ...

Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election over the weekend, dealing a blow to a political ...

Marxist leader Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president after an election that saw voters reject an old guard ...

Mr. Dissanayake, 56, was sworn in by Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at the Presidential Secretariat. He thanked Prime ...